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Minister-President’ Talks

This series of talks was initiated by the Stiftung’s Advisory Board members Klaus Bresser, Ernst Elitz, Jürgen Engert and Hermann Rudolph and its Chairman Volker Hassemer. Berlin should never be a “city unto itself”. What do Germany’s federal states expect from the capital and metropolis Berlin? – That is the question the Stiftung Zukunft Berlin asks of the federal states’ Minister-Presidents when it invites them to give one of the Talks on the Capital in Berlin.

Metropolitan Region Berlin-Brandenburg

Following the failed merger of their two states, policy-makers in Berlin and Brandenburg now appear to have lost the heart for developing a shared basic concept for the future of the region. To be sure, there are isolated future-oriented projects that are conducted jointly, but these are no substitute for a common regional strategy. Not content with this state of affairs, we are working on several strategies focusing on areas of common ground in the region.

A Soul for Europe

A Soul for Europe is a civil society initiative that employs a novel, future-oriented model for cooperation between civil society and policy-makers. From bases in Amsterdam, Belgrade, Berlin, Brussels, Porto and Tbilisi, the “A Soul for Europe” Initiative is building an international network of European cities and regions, the cultural sector and business as well as European policy-makers.

German Länder in Berlin

Germany’s capital is not only the seat of the country’s national government and parliament, the Bundestag; the German Länder, or federal states, also have a presence there through their representations and the German parliament’s upper chamber, the Bundesrat. These are eclipsed, however, by the Reichstag Building, where the Bundestag meets, the Federal Chancellery and the German Federal Ministries and are hardly noticed by Berliners and visitors to the city.

Hamburg-Berlin

Hamburg and Berlin are two Metropolitan Regions that could be the initiator of cultural, economic and social developments in northern Germany, both individually and acting in unison. Much like the earlier EU growth axis in Spain and France, the “growth triangle” Elbe-Spree-Oder could develop a unique beacon effect radiating across the entire northern Baltic region.

The State of Europe

The European integration process needs benchmarks for identifying what is European and for measuring progress in efforts to create a common Europe.

This is the rationale behind “The State of Europe”, initiated by Stiftung Zukunft Berlin and co-organized with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and Robert Bosch Stiftung.

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